Bio of CHASE, Frank R. (b.1868), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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FRANK R. CHASE - Vol II, pg 183-184
Frank R. Chase, whose activity in the field of insurance, real estate and
finance has covered a wide scope and made him one of the prosperous citizens of
Minneapolis, was born in Concord, Essex county, Vermont, about 1868. During his
youthful days he spent about eight or ten years in Lowell, Massachusetts, there
attending school, and also spending a part of that period as a salesman in a dry
goods house. His identification with the West dates from 1882, in which year he
removed to Georgetown, Colorado, being sent to that city as agent for the Boston
& Colorado Smelting Company. He remained in the employ of that company as
assayer and purchasing agent for seven years and then, in 1889, came to
Minneapolis with the Western Guarantee Loan Company. Upon him devolved the task
of attending to the rental of its building and the management of its property
interests. At length the company failed and the building in which its offices
were located passed into the hands of Thomas Lowry, Mr. Chase, however,
remaining as agent of the building-a position which he has filled without
interruption since 1890, or for almost a third of a century. In August, 1904,
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company purchased the building, but there, was
no change in the agency nor has there been any since. Mr. Chase has displayed
splendid business qualifications in. his supervision of the building, whereby he
became firmly established as a valued and representative resident of the city.
Into other fields Mr. Chase has also directed his labors with equal success.
Since 1893 he has been engaged in the insurance and loan business on his own
account and his sagacity and keen discernment in this connection have made his
undertaking one of gratifying profit. He. is now at the head of the firm of
Chase & Schaufield, operating in these lines, and he is likewise agent of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in its Minneapolis real estate transactions.
His name appears in connection with the directorate of the Marquette Trust
Company and of the Minneapolis Savings and Loan Association, both of which are
tenants of the building of which he is the agent
Mr. Chase was married in Massachusetts, in 1886, to Miss Laura B. Clough, and to
them have been born three children: Marjorie, Stillman C., and Frank R., Jr. Mr.
Chase has membership in the Minneapolis Club, but his interests center in other
directions rather than in club life. He belongs to the Universalist church and
has been treasurer of the Church of the Redeemer since the death Of the late
William Butters. In politics he has never been actively partisan, yet neglects
none of the duties that make for good citizenship. Quietly he has pursued the
even tenor of his way, accomplishing his purposes in the world and commanding
the respect and confidence of his fellow men, not by reason of any spectacular
phases in his career, but because of his possession of those substantial
qualities which, after all, are the dominant elements in the upbuilding of every
community and the maintenance of its civic standards and ideals.